OLDBURY, a township of Worcestershire, England, comprising the two parishes of Oldbury and Langley, is situated on the Birmingham Canal and on the London and North-Western and Great-Western Railways, 5 miles west of Birmingham and 3 east of Dudley. Coal, iron, and limestone abound in the neighbourhood, and the town possesses chemical works, railway-carriage works, iron edgetool, nail, and steel works, maltings, corn-mills’, brick and tile kilns, and a manufactory of glass shades. There are no public buildings of importance. The population of the urban sanitary district (1678 acres) in 1871 was 16,410, and in 1881 it was 18,841.